The Stage
A relaxed duo offering up a delightful selection of songs
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Jazz Review
In short: a gem of an album, pulling off the difficult feat of simultaneously showcasing Martin's unrivalled vocal gifts and celebrating the extraordinarily moving quality of Horn's music. Strongly recommended.
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The Jazz Rag
The result is wholly listenable - a happy hour of music.
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Record Collector
Martin sings with her now familiar emotional power, maintaining her concentration with the song in hand, and always remaining totally believable.
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BBC Music Magazine
Claire Martin shows why she's one of today's most sought-after singers
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Jazz Times
(Her) voice is one of the most satisfying instruments in jazz.
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Claire Martin - He Never Mentioned Love - Limelight

06 August 2007Limelight

This is more than just a tribute album to the late pianist-singer Shirley Horn whose ultra slow vocals often seemed to dissipate like cigarette smoke in the air. Horn, who died in 2005, was one of Claire Martin's greatest influences but as befitting someone whose musical intelligence, jazz spirit and individuality make her the complete singer, England's finest jazz diva stamps her own personality on each track, her smoky voice with the richness of its bottom range as palatable to the ear as ever. Dig her own Slowly but Shirley, the ache of The Sun Died (superb flugelhorn by Gerard Presencer) and the charging All Night Long. It's all class.